February 10, 2025

Mystery of Life II: If You Don’t Push-In, You Will be Pushed-Out 

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By Prof. Dr. Halimu Shauri

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The mystery of life is in its dynamism. Just the conception of the duality of life can unravel the “Push-Ins and “Push-Outs”. We are essentially treated to understand the world in this duality. 

In fact, they say you are either with us or with them in other quarters to refer to this duality. Similarly, concepts such as love or hate, good or bad, day or night, and our example of push-Ins and push-Outs can help us to unravel by first understanding the life mysteries as we

struggle to live life-for life, they say, is for the living 100 per cent. 

Because of the dynamic nature of life, therefore, we must also be dynamic to respond to its dynamism. In biology, they call it adaptation. They go further and say it’s all about a struggle of the fittest, and those unfit are Pushed-Out or become extinct. 

We must, therefore, leverage our human capabilities to always adapt to the dynamic nature of life by being alert to changes that continually happen around us and quickly adapt to those changes. True to the fact that technology, creativity, and innovation have all become nascent tools to foster such adaptation to the dynamic and sometimes illusive nature of life.

However, the adaptation to those changes must go beyond the biological realm to include other realms such as social, economic, political, and even legal to mention but a few. Mentioning the legal realm, I must confess that this is one of the fastest cases of dynamism in life. 

Our legal institutions have created heaps and heaps of laws to govern the dynamism of life and its bundle of mysteries. The one million dollar question then is whether we can all fathom these heaps and heaps of legal literature? Indeed, some of them have themselves engineered the complexities experienced in the mystery and dynamism of life, justifying their dynamic nature too. 

Thus, we must be alive to the fact that as life becomes dynamic, so should we, and the legal codes that goven it. In a nutshell, we are because of the mystery and dynamic nature of life. The more mysterious and dynamic life becomes, the more complex or adapted to the mystery and dynamism, as it were, humanity must become. We are who we are today because life has become more mysterious and dynamic now than yesterday.

Prof. Dr. Halimu Shauri 

DEAN & CONSULTANT SOCIOLOGIST 

PWANI UNIVERSITY 

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